Want a Dose of "Factual" Reality Folks...By vaping, Instead of Smoking Cigarettes, Your Odds Have Improved Dramatically in Another Way:
Updated: 10/10
Be careful with your vaping equipment, but I know my odds have already improved dramatically in another way from ending my cigarette habit 2+ years ago.
- Cigarettes are a leading cause of home fire fatalities in the United States, killing 600 to 800 people - smokers and nonsmokers alike - per year.
- Smoking-material fires killed 680 people and injured 1,520 others in 2008. Ninety-one percent of the deaths and 82 percent of the injuries were in home fires.
- Property losses from smoking-material fires total hundreds of millions of dollars each year.
- There were 29,700 smoking-material structure fires in the United States in 2008.
- Fires caused by smoking materials are actually on the decline, thanks in part to more stringent standards for fire-resistive mattresses and upholstered furniture, public education, and a dramatic decrease in the number of cigarettes consumed per adult in the United States.
- The risk of dying in a home structure fire caused by smoking materials rises with age. Between 2004 and 2008, two out of five (39 percent) fatal home smoking-material-fire victims were age 65 or older.
- One-quarter of victims of smoking-material fire fatalities are not the smokers whose cigarettes started the fire: 34 percent are children of the smokers; 25 percent are neighbors or friends; 14 percent are spouses or partners; and 13 percent are parents.
- Trash, mattresses and bedding, and upholstered furniture are the items most commonly ignited in smoking-material home fires.
- Between 2004 and 2008, 40% of fatal home smoking-material fire victims were sleeping when injured; thirty-seven percent were attempting to escape, to fight the fire, or to rescue others.
Updated: 10/10
Be careful with your vaping equipment, but I know my odds have already improved dramatically in another way from ending my cigarette habit 2+ years ago.
Vipod 
